Yeah, that game did get extreme. Glad you were able to get vengeance. Did the Monarch get deleted? Or did people smash him up? I do know a number of players who would randomly take out cheaters and “Net worth whores” (as we called them) unprovoked, because no one would dispute it - unless they were in a top tier alliance or had a reputation. It’s a little bit funny the players were that extreme though
But yeah, I ended up getting online at 4am for attacks and such. The only barriers I refused to break were school, work, and dating.
Speaking of dating and how crazy Utopia people were. I met a girl in the University residence back in the day. Slender red head, she played the game “Not Saturday, I’m out of town, maybe Wednesday or next weekend.” And then I bumped into her at the gym on Thursday. Anyway, the two of us got together, and one night I get the whole “I play this stupid online game and I have to be online for a bit.” Sure enough, Utopia… never took her as that kind of person. But also, she happened to be in a top Kingdom who was a rival of mine and hated my alliance (Absalom). Anyway, to make the long story short: she started accusing me of being “arrogant like Absalom” out of nowhere! And somehow we managed to stay together most of the semester, but in the end that was probably the reason we broke up… because I was in an alliance she didn’t like. Our two Kingdoms went to war sometime in the week after, you can guess how that went =D
Actually, now on reflection, I think I was the crazier Utopia person in that story. I mean, when she tells it, I can see myself coming off a lot worse than she does in my version… I feel like an arrogant prick just telling this story. well, shit.